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"Analysing the reception of contemporary French philosophy in architecture over the last four decades, Adventures with the Theory of the Baroque and French Philosophy discusses the problematic nature of importing philosophical categories into architecture. Focusing particularly on the philosophical notion of the Baroque in Gilles Deleuze, this study examines traditional interpretations of the concept in contemporary architecture theory, throwing up specific problems such as the aestheticization of building theory and practice. Identifying these and other issues, Nadir Lahiji constructs a concept of the baroque in contrast to the contemporary understanding in architecture discourse. Challenging the contemporary dominance of the Neo-Baroque as a phenomenon related to postmodernism and late capitalism, he establishes the Baroque as a name for the paradoxical unity of 'kitsch' and 'high' art and argues that the digital turn has enhanced the return of the Baroque in contemporary culture and architectural practice that he brands a pseudo-event in the term 'neobaroque'. Lahiji's original critique expands on the misadventure of architecture with French Philosophy and explains why the category of the Baroque, if it is still useful to keep in architecture criticism, must be tied to the notion of Post-Rationalism. Within this latter notion, he draws on the work of Alain Badiou to theorize a new concept of the Baroque as Event. Alongside close readings of Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno and Michel Foucault related to the criticism of the Baroque and Modernity and discussions of the work of Frank Gehry, in particular, this study draws on Jacque Lacan's concept of the baroque and presents the first comprehensive treatment of the psychoanalytical theory of the Baroque in the work of Lacan."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Lacan, Jacques, --- Lacan, Jacques --- Aesthetics, Baroque. --- Aesthetics, French. --- Architecture --- Philosophy. --- French aesthetics --- Baroque aesthetics

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The thesis deals primarily with the term wit and its modern and historical usage in literary and aesthetic theories. Further, it concerned with the literary and aesthetic implications of the terms wit and esprit as they were theorized in critical writings of several authors of the early modern England and France. The thesis has two primary goals. The first goal is to re-assess the English concept of wit, nowadays regarded as an out-dated device of past poetic systems, and to present it as vital and useful part of the contemporary discourse. The second goal is to provide comparative reading of early modern English and French theoretical texts dealing with wit and esprit, respectively. Presenting ideas on the English term wit as employed in the theoretical writings in the light of its French equivalent esprit, I wish to demonstrate a gradual development of the terms from rhetoric to aesthetic.

English literature --- French literature --- Aesthetics, British. --- Aesthetics, French. --- French aesthetics --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- History and criticism.

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Aesthetics, British --- Aesthetics, French --- Art patronage --- Arts patronage --- Business patronage of the arts --- Corporations --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of art --- Art and industry --- French aesthetics --- Aesthetics, English --- British aesthetics --- English aesthetics --- CDL --- 75.034/035

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Fiction --- French literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- French fiction --- Realism in literature --- Aesthetics, French --- History and criticism --- 840-31 --- -Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- French aesthetics --- Franse literatuur: roman --- 840-31 Franse literatuur: roman --- French fiction - History and criticism

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Aesthetics, French --- -Didactic literature, French --- -Etiquette --- -French literature --- -Social ethics in literature --- Ceremonies --- Condolence, Etiquette of --- Manners --- Politeness --- Usages --- Conduct of life --- Manners and customs --- French didactic literature --- French literature --- French aesthetics --- History and criticism --- History --- -History and criticism --- Didactic literature, French --- Etiquette --- Social ethics in literature